Sway can be used to create multimedia, interactive presentations Sway allows you to create Digital Stories that flow beautifully, displaying interactive multimedia content. The built in click and drag feature makes it easy to upload content from various sources. Sway is intuitive and easy to navigate with simple menus. You can unleash your creativity by …
Microsoft Immersive Reader is a free tool, built into Word, OneNote, Outlook, Office Lens, Microsoft Teams, Forms and the Edge browser, that implement techniques to improve reading and writing skills. Immersive Reader can: Customise text size, spacing and background colour Isolate content to improve readability Display pictures for common words Highlight nouns, verbs, adjectives and …
What is Microsoft Forms? Microsoft Forms is a tool for creating surveys and quizzes Microsoft Forms allows users the ability to create surveys and self marking quizzes. Forms can be shared with Glow users and externally with parents and the community. Forms automatically collates data which is displayed in interactive graphs. All this data can …
The following link showcases how QR codes have been creatively used within our school in order to enhance children’s engagement in learning and play, improve digital literacy across the curriculum, overcome written communication and interpretation barriers, provide opportunities for vertical learning through interactive displays, and deliver a sustainable and efficient method for staff training, to …
At Williamsburgh Primary School we have used QR codes, videos and drone footage to enhance viewer engagement and experience of Nursery – P1 transition. By doing so we have maintained our pedagogical approach, tailored our service delivery to the needs, interests and queries of children and families, encouraged children’s independence and digital literacy by accessing …
Making home learning content accessible: Padlet/Thinglink/Sway In the following three session recordings, we explore how ELC practitioners can use a range of digital tools to help make home learning content more accessible, in an engaging early level friendly way. *Please check with your local authority before using any digital tools/apps that are not part of the Glow core apps to …
Supporting early level learners to digitally document their learning: enhancing early level literacy with digital technology. In this introductory session recording (part 1 of 2), we explore the Digital Literacy Experience and Outcomes (that sit within the Technologies Curriculum) and where they overlap with the Literacy and English curriculum. You will find out about a range of …
Digital technologies provide opportunities for us to design unique learning spaces for the children. Bringing resources and experiences virtually into the setting can lead learning well-beyond what was originally planned. Realising the Ambition | Learning resources | National Improvement Hub (education.gov.scot) (page 79)  Learning with and through digital technology opens so many possibilities for creativity. Realising …
Why is cyber resilience and internet safety (CRIS) so important? We are spending an increasing amount of time learning, playing and socialising in online environments. In fact, 87% of people aged 16+ in the UK used the internet in 2019 (Ofcom). Our online behaviours fall into three categories, we: consume create communicate To support our children and young …
Microsoft have created the Digital Future Programme to help young people explore the digital future aims to prepare young people for the technology-driven world of tomorrow, demonstrate how diversity helps build better technology, and how it can be used as a force for positive change. The programme brings together the best resources from Microsoft and …
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